Childhood Cancer: A debt is no longer expected 2025/05/14

If there is a problem of awareness and solidarity of the Mexican population, it is childhood cancer.

If this is not, it is sufficient to remember the mobilization of parents who suffer from cancer patients at airports and streets in different cities of the country in protest against the absence of medicines, which is a procedure, rather than the anger of travelers and public citizens in general, supported.

There is no doubt that the heel of Achilles in the last six period -specifically cancer in children and parents’ complaints of the lack of medicines in time.

Consequently, the current administration takes care of all the details about this disease, and evidence of this is the purchase of 175 pharmaceuticals and cancer treatments reported by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Eduardo Clark.

This is why the announcement made by the Minister of Health, David KirchnobicWho presented the president Claudia Shinbom The National Medical Welfare Protocol focused on the early diagnosis of cancer in girls, boys and adolescents.

The goal is that the medical and public population can discover the symptoms in a timely manner that they can alert them from the possibility of cancer in children (leukemia, brain and testicular tumors), and however, they can get a timely treatment.

The goal of health authorities will be to reach 70 and up to 80 % of survival and recovery, as well as improve children’s treatments.

It is unfortunate that childhood cancer has become the first cause of death in children from 5 to 14 years in our country. Even a few years ago, in the first place, in this age group, road accidents were occupied.

It is estimated that there are between five to six new cases of cancer every year in children under the age of 19, which is the first cause of death due to the disease in children under the age of 14. The reality in Mexico is that children with cancer are not diagnosed in time, which delays their treatment of tumors, and thus reduces the average life expectancy. Currently, the average child or teenager with cancer is 52 %, when in developed countries 80 percent.

There are still large debts in the medical care that children with cancer, which face the lack of tumor services for children, which include early diagnosis, appropriate treatment and follow -up, which is vital to survival. I hope you start getting a new story, from greater success, in discovering childhood cancer that prevents more than two thousand children from death every year for this disease.

Abatelenguas

12 years have just been completed, as restaurant tables were left in Mexico City without salt tremors, as a base that she criticized entered into force.

In the context of the World Awareness Week on SALT 2025, activists called on the Mexican government so that there are more campaigns to increase awareness about the dangers of excessive consumption of salt through manufactured products that contain sodium. This is that the Mexican population continues to consume more salt (3.1 grams per day), which is recommended by the World Health Organization – 2 grams per day – which can generate risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems.

Under the microscope

The ten desires of ISSTE, the general director of ISSTE, to improve the patient’s care through a generous and humanitarian treatment by medical, nursing, administrative and even police personnel who are outside the hospitals, does not seem bad. In fact, the lack of quick medical care and quality is one of the main complaints of users who go to clinics, hospitals and administrative offices that ISSTE at the national level. In the coming months, we will see whether these desires have been completed or remain in promises, as happened in the previous Sexennia.